IT as well as fleets had better be ready for Black Friday
Black Friday is essentially when the Christmas shopping season starts. Although it’s not yet December (a curmudgeon writes) Friday 25th Novem…
Are you ready for a post-GDPR cybersecurity single market?
The digital world is the new economy and the imminent EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be a major part of it. Digital powers our i…
Will your website be incompatible in January because of new standards?
Standards change in technology all the time. In the 1980s and 1990s there was a standard called “open systems” which meant the Unix ope…
We need to support the rise of “Gigabit Britain”
There is a global gigabit revolution in progress. Across the world, operators of all sizes are investing billions into the development of pure fibr…
NHS email blunder has highlighted the perils of human error
So yesterday we led in with a story that had an amusing side to it but was actually serious. Likewise today we’re reporting on the email blun…
Your data’s security is your right no matter what legal activity you’re up to online
There will inevitably be sniggers as it has emerged that Adult Friend Finder (we won’t trouble you with the link) has sprung a security leak,…
Google’s Android replays Microsoft’s greatest hit with Europe
Will your company’s next brace of mobile phones be based on Google’s Android system? If so, Google is trying to make them easier to set…
Everybody’s collecting data but do we trust it?
Data is vitally important to a lot of organisations but according to a report from KPMG we’re not 100 per cent certain what to do with it whe…
Donald Trump is going to be president, so good luck if you work in IT
President Donald Trump. Typing that phrase feels odd; like Brexit, the media classes didn’t believe it was going to happen (and there is a lo…
The Internet of Things is important but where do you start?
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to gain momentum rapidly. Gartner suggests that during 2016, 5.5 million new ‘things’ will have been connect…
Should forecasters turn to Artificial Intelligence to predict the US election?
The polling industry called the EU referendum wrong and was out in the last UK election. Eyes are on the upcoming US election to see if anyone will…
Microsoft research questions public sector readiness over digitalisation
Digital business is a reality but the public sector isn’t ready for it. That’s the fear expressed in a Microsoft/YouGov report called &…
If Facebook will not let Admiral to check profiles for insurance what else could be disallowed?
Facebook decided yesterday that Admiral Insurance’s plan to check its young applicants’ social media feeds before accepting them as cli…
How disruptive technology is shaping access
It is not hard to see that the accessible and assistive technology industry is undergoing a period of intense change, but perhaps the impact of tha…
Government to launch cyber security strategy
Philip Hammond, chancellor of the exchequer, is expected today to announce a boost to the cyber defence grid in what’s being described as a n…
Is Brexit going to squeeze corporate tech budgets?
The Brexit price problem started with a jar of marmite. Or rather several jars of marmite. They were on sale in Tesco and Unilever had to put the p…
Paypal’s security breach highlights our dependence on others
News that Paypal‘s security has been compromised should surprise no-one. This is not to say that the company is unreliable but that any organ…
The UK’s infrastructure is being stolen
It’s a strange world where anyone would deliberately put themselves amongst power cabling energised at over 100,000 volts, and then intentionally u…
Big Data meets the Shakespeare Code
William Shakespeare is no longer credited as the sole author of all of his plays. As was widely reported last week, Christopher Marlowe is now reco…
Increasing demand for customer support in the age of the Internet of Things
As the CIO (or “IT guy”) for a global contact centre and IT outsourcing company, I consider myself to be a fairly digitally-savvy person, able to n…
Internet under attack, and your office or home might have helped
There’s no getting away from it, the Internet itself was under attack at the end of last week. That’s not a surprise; as this service h…
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